A chilling collection of ghost storiescontaining Rats by MR James, The Ravenand Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe, TheBirthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, ATough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce and TheSignalman by Charles Dickens. In Rats, MrThompson comes to regret his decision toinvestigate a locked room in a countryinn, and in The Signalman, the subject ofthe story is haunted by ghostlyappearances that always precede tragicevents.